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This report explores the costs of caring for a person age 60 and older in the community (through PASSPORT) versus caring for a person age 60 and older in a nursing home. Medicaid costs and all other public program costs ...

This report addresses findings related to the quality standards of the PASSPORT program. Although all evaluation components address aspects of quality assurance and improvement, this study addressed issues regarding the ...

How can architects improve the relationship between the occupant and the space in regards to offering
the occupant and enjoyable experience, which also fulfills their needs and expectations of function?
Among many design ...

Backlash, clearance or dead zone is a common feature of many mechanical systems and can undermine the performance of the system, since it has a large inﬂuence on the dynamics and control of systems. It can be caused by ...

The 24/7 availability of information has led to the demand for 24/7 library services. Miami
University increased operations of its central facility, King Library, incrementally, until it
began 24/7 operations in 2000. ...

This qualitative study analyzed the stories and circumstances of family caregivers to older adults with an emphasis on understanding the financial implications of caregiving. Themes included: the timing of the caregiving ...

ABSTRACT
Piloting the Classroom:
Teaching from Multiple Perspectives
By: Nicole M. Gilmore
This honors thesis serves as a teaching portfolio based on my lessons and experiences with teaching in the classroom and with ...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, British North
America was trying to find its way within the Empire and in North
America. The American democratic and republican experiment offered
the Canadian colonies an ...

The number of women who experience breast cancer is increasing. Meanwhile
there have been improvements in technologies used for detection and
intervention. As a result, more women are living as breast cancer survivors
who ...

What do people think about the emotion of regret? Recent demonstrations of the psychological
benefits of regret have been framed against an assumption that most people find regret to be
aversive, both when experienced ...

With a grant from the Administration on Aging, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging(n4a) partnered with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduet the 2007 Aging Network Survey of Title VI Native American ...

This poster will present outreach initiatives undertaken by the library’s preservation department to promote library preservation among students and patrons. In collaboration with special collections, the preservation ...

Increasingly, our digital lives have moved off hard drives and into the cloud. What are the privacy implications of cloud-based services such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter? Who is watching us, and – more importantly – ...

We build a probabilistic solution generator using the learning automata theory, which can generate a small set of "good enough" designs with a predetermined high probability. The main goal of our work is to reduce a large ...